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Aide: Political Logic of Angering GOP Base Over Immigration So Close to Midterm Election "Baffling"
Reaganite Republican ^ | 25 January 2014 | Reaganite Republican

Posted on 01/25/2014 11:07:39 AM PST by Reaganite Republican

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To: null and void

The Mexican government probably knows all about Boehner’s and McCarthy’s skeletons, whatever they might be.


41 posted on 01/25/2014 1:50:55 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (...)
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Rand Paul's immigration speech
...The Republican Party must embrace more legal immigration.

Unfortunately, like many of the major debates in Washington, immigration has become a stalemate-where both sides are imprisoned by their own rhetoric or attachment to sacred cows that prevent the possibility of a balanced solution.

Immigration Reform will not occur until Conservative Republicans, like myself, become part of the solution. I am here today to begin that conversation.

Let's start that conversation by acknowledging we aren't going to deport 12 million illegal immigrants.

If you wish to work, if you wish to live and work in America, then we will find a place for you...

This is where prudence, compassion and thrift all point us toward the same goal: bringing these workers out of the shadows and into being taxpaying members of society.

Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers.12 million more people assimilating into society. 12 million more people being productive contributors.
[Posted on 03/19/2013 7:04:07 AM PDT by Perdogg]
Rand Paul calls on conservatives to embrace immigration reform
Latinos, should be a natural constituency for the party, Paul argued, but "Republicans have pushed them away with harsh rhetoric over immigration." ...he would create a bipartisan panel to determine how many visas should be granted for workers already in the United States and those who might follow... [and the buried lead] "Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers...
[Posted on 04/21/2013 1:52:42 PM PDT by SoConPubbie]
[but he's not in favor of amnesty, snicker, definition of is is]
42 posted on 01/25/2014 2:03:28 PM PST by SunkenCiv (;http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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To: Reaganite Republican

They don’t call it the STUPID Party for nothing.


43 posted on 01/25/2014 6:18:19 PM PST by jch10 (John Beohner has got to be removed from the Speaker position.)
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To: Reaganite Republican

It’s not baffling at all. All you need to do is read my tag line and it all becomes quite clear.


44 posted on 01/25/2014 10:05:14 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; me = independent conservative)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

I don’t think they are stupid . I think we don’t know something they know,which is scarier.


45 posted on 01/26/2014 5:51:45 AM PST by autumnraine
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